The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in Britain, Sir John Stevens, is to hold his first face-to-face meeting with the family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane next week.
Mr Stevens has been investigating the murder of Mr Finucane in his north Belfast home in February 1989. Last year he concluded there was collusion between security forces and loyalist paramilitaries.
Mr Finucane's widow Geraldine confirmed the meeting will take place in Belfast next Monday. She said she would stress at it the need for an independent public inquiry rather than an investigation.
She said: "My family will meet Commissioner Stevens to tell him that we do not want this investigation and that the prosecution of individuals is not our priority.
"We want the truth.
"The families have no input into a police investigation. It is carried out in secret. The family will have no input into any future trials."
The case for an inquiry into Mr Finucane's killing was the focus of a report by retired Canadian judge Peter Cory who also examined five other controversial killings during the Troubles.
Judge Cory handed in a report to the Dublin Government on two cases affecting the jurisdiction of the Republic and another to the British government on four cases.
Dublin published its report in December and ordered an inquiry into alleged collusion between the IRA and some gardai in the double murder of senior RUC officers Bob Buchanan and Harry Breen in 1989.
However, the British government has still not published its report on four murders - Mr Finucane's, Portadown Catholic Robert Hammill's in 1997, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright's in the Maze Prison in 1997 and Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson in 1999.
Judge Cory contacted the Finucane, Nelson, Hamill and Wright families last month to inform them he had recommended inquiries into each case.
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